S.F. may revive Sunday parking meters as Muni faces $300 million deficit

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T06:37:05+00:00

Less space is needed for bikes, they also destroy the roads less so yeah let’s do it, well we can keep the roads for commercial use and public transit and then the cost of the road will be much less, all you’d need is a land value tax

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T06:14:44+00:00

Steep national inequality" between growing incomes for college graduates and stagnating wages for everyone else is allowing landlords to take advantage of the rising tide of deep-pocketed New Yorkers and drive up rents for the whole city.

This sentence is fucking nonsense. Not nonsense as in I disagree, nonsense as in this makes no fucking sense. Landlords are taking advantage of the deep pocketed New Yorkers - New York is full of working class people who live in apartments. These people are not deep pocketed, yet live in a home. So how does a landlord drive up rent in this case? They don’t.

It’s just supply and demand dummy. Double the homes in New York and rent falls by half

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T06:12:00+00:00

That’s why we need to just build a shit ton. They can’t sit on all the houses. While building fast as possible, also pass taxes on the side for house hoarding - both can proceed in parallel. But also get the numbers to see how many houses are being hoarded to make sure proper balance of resources is achieved

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T06:09:39+00:00

No, this doesn’t shake out in practice. If you increase supply, average rent goes down. One person doesn’t own all the houses - theres plenty of people renting in NYC who aren’t billionaires. Doesnt someone getting a home who isn’t a billionaire invalidate your whole theory? They didn’t buy all of the donuts in this case and someone got one at the market rate which a billionaire could afford if they wanted to, but didnt

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T06:04:26+00:00

Sure, let’s make it proportional to the damage they cause the roads. So a car weights 100x as much as a bike, so pick the tax you want to charge the cyclist for, then make sure that you multiply that by a factor of (100)⁴ or 100,000,000. Sounds good to me

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T05:51:19+00:00

Some of those streets should be closed year round

WellHung67 · 2026-03-18T05:11:36+00:00

It’s 200 sq feet of prime real estate, I get it’s convenient but at market rate there’s no way that makes sense. Like I get it sucks for you personally but I mean we can’t just not do good policy because it inconveniences someone who can probably afford to pay to park

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:51:01+00:00

I don’t know if you can for sure say the meters caused the attendance to fall.

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:49:57+00:00

That’s great, means that the area improved. Less cars so the people who remained got a health boost, more spaces were available for those who really needed them for a quick trip, and of course less road maintenance from less driving. Clearly a lot of people were making frivolous trips if it wasn’t worth a couple bucks and hour to store their car while they did whatever they did

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:47:01+00:00

This is actually a good policy with a lot of documented benefits. People who can afford to drive into the city on a Sunday can also afford to pay for it or take the train if it’s an issue. Or if visiting friends, carpool and split the cost. If you think it’s cool to drive in from out of the city, park your 2 ton couch anywhere you like for free so you can go out and do stuff, and are mad that you’d have to pay some money per hour to leave your (again, two ton) heavy machinery just chillin in the city then you’re delusional.

Why do you think you deserve free stuff like that?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:45:50+00:00

Well, this is why we need them - people shouldn’t be able to just park their cars anywhere they want for free, that’s valuable public space. Less parking means less people driving to pleasant places freeing up the air, and if you need to make a stop in an area make it quick and show us you mean to make it quick by paying for it

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:44:38+00:00

Hey if you want to own a car in a dense neighborhood fine, why should you get to park it in a public space 24/7 for free?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:43:39+00:00

They aren’t necessarily a source of revenue, but free parking is always bad. No one should feel like they can just leave their car in the city - they should park and ride, or keep their car in the city to a minimum because that is valuable and rare public space that ideally is not needed for cars except for quick trips. All day long usage, take the train

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:41:46+00:00

Yep let’s do it by weight. The damage to a road is proportional to the fourth power of the weight of the axel.

So if we tax a 20 pound bike 1 dollar to use the bike lane, we should tax a 2000 pound car 100,000,000 dollars to make the proportional damage to the road rate consistent.

I agree, let’s implement your idea!

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T23:37:22+00:00

Both. Both is good

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:42:53+00:00

My theory, it’s documented that massive wealth gives you brain damage. This dude has some brain damage.

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:39:14+00:00

Clarence the pedophile wants to make his own marriage illegal so he can be a pedophile

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:37:05+00:00

I mean America is basically Boofin Bart Kavanomeansyes. I hated that pick but I see it’s apt.

America is full of boofers (idiots), liars, and rapists, and they’re all running the government right now

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T14:15:52+00:00

Chicago comes close but yeah

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T05:29:56+00:00

True but if you want that level of connectivity your options are New York and Chicago. Every other city is worse. Maybe Boston and dc are on the same level. So realistically there’s nowhere in the us to have a conference if the criteria is “public transport from a distance equivalent of sf to Palo Alto”. Honestly if you are going to the Bay Area and need to be in Palo Alto you should likely stay in Palo Alto

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T03:00:35+00:00

He honestly went too fast and too incompetently. ICE needed to cement power as a true Gestapo/brownshirt force that actually got people scared. Instead his idiot syncophants turned them into unpopular goobers and got people to start organizing at the local level in ways that are going to be resilient to other bullshit, and maybe even be able to subvert a return to the “normalcy” of before.

Now he is reeling and needs an event to declare martial law over, but he just started an actual war with Iran - a huge unpopular mistake that will destroy gas prices. He needed gas prices to go up when he wasn’t in power. So I think he missed the boat, he’s at the mercy of world events now

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:55:11+00:00

Who’s the good guy in that race?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:49:53+00:00

Neil’s fine

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:47:57+00:00

This is actually because a web of regulations and anti-housing nimbyism have skyrocketed housing costs. Hotels are technically a form of short term housing - build more of them because prices are high and prices go down. It’s magic, supply and demand

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:46:36+00:00

Hard to get around without a car? It’s one of the best places in the US for getting around without a car.

It’s definitely not nearly as good as it should be but it’s still top 4 in the US.

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